Harry Potter’s Book of Sin Chapter 211: Dark Spirit Pavilion Wizarding Guild
"Look, there is one of the entrances."
Tarino stopped and pointed to the brick wall beside the street where an old billboard was erected.
Actually, without Tarino's reminder, Maca had already discovered the anomaly there.
Nowadays, he can vaguely sense anything with magical power. Although because of the natural decay of magic power, the farther away the more difficult it is to perceive, the distance of even ten meters is quite amazing.
Moody's magic eye works in the same way.
Of course, the creator of that thing must be a master alchemist, and the detection accuracy must be far beyond the current Maca.
It's just that Moody's magic eye can only detect a rough magic response, and transform it into a rough visual image through the sophisticated alchemy array.
That doesn't help him to feel the magic of magic more clearly.
But even so, alchemy has proven its infinite potential. If it were not for the knowledge that was too profound and complicated, and the failure rate of actually making alchemy items was terribly high, I am afraid that the learning of spells would not be the mainstream of today's magic world.
While Maca was habitually thinking, Tarino had already taken out his wand and placed it in an orderly manner on the letters of the billboard.
"Let's go! Today I will take you to see what is the ‘black’ market." Tarino said with a smile.
I have long been used to seeing Maca in the underground black market of the Muggle World, and I am really curious about the black market in the magical world. If there is always darkness outside the light, the black market is the so-called "grey zone".
And this kind of place is usually quite shocking.
Sure enough, when Maca followed Tarino through the billboard, after feeling a cold sensation similar to that of passing through the entrance of "Platform Nine and Three Quarters", a loud noise came to his ears. It keeps pouring in.
The first thing that catches the eye is a very wide circular square.
It can be seen from the old stone brick floor underfoot that several centuries have passed since the original construction period.
A whole circle of doors are closely arranged around this circular square. From time to time, one or two mysterious wizards who cover their heads come out of those doors.
Maca looked back, and as expected, he and Tarino also came out of these carved stone doors.
In the four directions of this square, there are four stone roads leading to different directions.
On both sides of those roads, all kinds of strange buildings lined up one after another, and sometimes there are ghost cypresses that seem to be dry, but are actually full of life, growing freely among the buildings.
Under the dimly hanging street lamp, it looks much more gloomy and darker than Knockdown Alley.
At this moment, Maca raised his head and looked towards the sky, only to find that the top of his head was completely pitch black, there was not even a trace of light, and it was impossible to tell the direction.
"This place is bigger than the two Hogsmeade villages. Once you leave these four main roads, the route will become intricate and complicated. Even the elderly who often walk around here may lose their way..."
Tarino explained as he walked towards a stone road with Maca on the opposite side.
"The street with the brightest light is a comprehensive shopping area. There are many messy shops, both serious and irregular. But in general, they are some very common bargains..."
He walked forward, pointed to the one on the left hand side, and then pointed to the right after speaking.
"The darker lights over there are mainly for the trading of various materials. Of course, there are also some basic products of potions or alchemy."
"...and right now, where we are going," he said, pointing to the darker street in front of him, "there are many high-value and rare items for sale, and there are even regular auctions. Well, there is another...Look, it's that building..."
The building doesn't need Tarino to point out. Maca saw it early in the morning—no way. Among the buildings, the large building is the tallest and most eye-catching.
The big guy looks very similar to Gringotts Wizarding Bank, but it's obviously a few laps larger than Gringotts.
"That's also run by a fairy?" Maca couldn't help but guess.
"Yes! The Dark Spirit Pavilion Wizards Guild, in addition to hosting currency deposits and withdrawals and treasury leases like Gringotts in Diagon Alley, there are more services here." Tarino said in high spirits, "news." Sale, listing and employment of individuals and groups, various task issuance and reception, etc. In short, it is an established trade union with a very high degree of credit."
"Do you usually pick up jobs here?" Maca smiled.
"Uh...Of course, although the agency fees here are not low, the point is that you will never find work here." Tarino shrugged and said, "After all, we are most afraid of A reliable employer, isn't it?"
"Well... what about the darkest road before?" Maca pointed behind him, "What's there?"
When Tarino heard this, he subconsciously curled his lips.
"There is a residential area," he said in a more serious tone, "the residential area of the ‘nobles’ in the underground world."
"The nobles of the underground world?" Maca thought for a while, and suddenly said, "Could it be... those black wizard families from the ancient times?"
"You also know?" Tarino said in surprise, "As far as I know, there is no such news left outside, and Dumbledore's existence over the years has made those families very low-key..."
"If you want to look for it, you can still find some clues." Maca spread out and said, "But they are really low-key. They have been almost hundreds of years? There is no wind at all... this is not it. Is it just because of Dumbledore?"
"I also heard others say that, who knows?" Tarino said indifferently. "Those families are already very weak. If they die anytime, I won't be surprised at all. "
However, nothing is simple once it is matched with the things in the ancient times-Maca has already fully understood this point.
To say that those families continue to decline, he believes; but to say that they will die out silently, he does not believe that they will be killed.
In the face of death, even Flobber caterpillars that sleep and eat all day will be dying and struggling. How could those once behemoths die without warning?
The two of them walked side by side toward the large building called "Dark Spirit Pavilion" in a purposeless chat.
After they passed two magnificent black metal gates in succession, a wide hall immediately came into their sight.
Guang Kejian’s lacquered black marble floor and the lobby without any load-bearing pillars make it look much larger than what you see outside.
But it can be seen that there is no sign of the non-marking stretch curse being applied here, just because there is no visual obscuration, it makes this place look wider than imagined.
There is a long counter in each of the three directions of the lobby. Behind that, sitting a large number of fairy staff, they are handling different business for all kinds of customers.
In the hall, there are more weird wizards. To say that Maca is most emotional at this moment, it is that he has personally experienced the number of wizards.
Although there must be many wizards here who are not so-called "dark wizards", but those guys who exude a suspicious aura are definitely not good people.
In this way, the number of wizards in the entire British magical world may be much more than officially announced. The reason for this must be the "withdrawn" habit that wizards have been difficult to correct since ancient times.
Although the British Ministry of Magic has been established for nearly four hundred years, the unconventional and free life attitude of the wizards has directly led to the looseness and uncontrollability of the wizarding society.
If it weren't for this, no matter how powerful Voldemort was, it would be difficult for him to have such a big impact on the magical world.
"So, if I put up a task here to detect the movement of werewolves..." Maca looked at the large counter on the left and asked Tarino, "How long will it take to get news?"
"If you are not in a hurry, you can do this..." Tarino nodded, "I guess it will take a week at most~IndoMTL.com~What if I want to be faster?" Maca thought for a while and said, "Or, should we find the werewolf directly here, right?"
"Greyback registered here before and accepted a period of employment. But you know... Werewolves are not always welcome, and the same is true in the underground world." Tarino shook his head. Said, "Now... there must be werewolves here, but even if they are, they are very low-key, and they usually don't expose their identity easily."
It was Maca himself who suggested coming here. Although he wants to come here more to see and see, wouldn't it be better if he could find clues here?
From the perspective of the environment here, it is at least much easier to get things done than to look for clues aimlessly by yourself.
"Here you are more familiar than me. I want you to see, where should I go to try my luck?" Maca looked around and asked casually.
Tarino groaned for a moment, then gestured with his chin to the entrance of the side hall next to the counter on the left.
"There are several large hire teams there. If you have enough Jin Jialong, it will not be a problem for them to catch Greyback directly." He said, "Of course, they also sell news, prices Well, of course it is more expensive."
Maca considered his current wealth, and felt that he should first find a way to make money for himself in this place full of money. This is the most important thing.
Since his partner Tyrande left Hogsmeade, his income has shrunk dramatically. Now his potion level has greatly improved than before, and he has invented several more potions. It seems that it is not very difficult to make money.
Just as Macca was thinking about it, there was a commotion in a corner of the hall that attracted his attention.